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	<title>Libreboot documentation: Unbricking the ThinkPad T60</title>
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		<h1>Changing heatsink (or CPU) on the ThinkPad T60</h1>
		<aside>Using this guide you can also change/upgrade the CPU.</aside>
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	<p>Or go <a href="index.html">back to main index</a></p>

	<h1 id="hardware_requirements">Hardware requirements</h1>
		<ul>
			<li>rubbing alcohol or isopropyl alcohol, and thermal compound for changing CPU heatsink (procedure involves removing heatsink)</li>
			<li>thermal compound/paste (Arctic Silver 5 is good. Others are also good.)</li>
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	<h1 id="software_requirements">Software requirements</h1>
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			<li>xsensors</li>
			<li>stress</li>
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	<h1 id="recovery">Disassembly</h1>

		<p>
			Remove those screws and remove the HDD:<br/>
			<img src="../images/t60_dev/0001.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0002.JPG" alt="" />
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		<p>
			Lift off the palm rest:<br/>
			<img src="../images/t60_dev/0003.JPG" alt="" />
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			Lift up the keyboard, pull it back a bit, flip it over like that and then disconnect it from the board:<br/>
			<img src="../images/t60_dev/0004.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0005.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0006.JPG" alt="" />
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			Gently wedge both sides loose:<br/>
			<img src="../images/t60_dev/0007.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0008.JPG" alt="" />
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		<p>
			Remove that cable from the position:<br/>
			<img src="../images/t60_dev/0009.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0010.JPG" alt="" />
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		<p>
			Remove the bezel (sorry forgot to take pics).
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		<p>
			On the CPU (and there is another chip south-east to it, sorry forgot to take pic)
			clean off the old thermal paste (with the alcohol) and apply new (Artic Silver 5 is good, others are good too)
			you should also clean the heatsink the same way<br/>
			<img src="../images/t60_dev/0051.JPG" alt="" />
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		<p>
			This is also an opportunity to change the CPU to another one. For example if you had a Core Duo T2400, you can upgrade it to a better processor
			(higher speed, 64-bit support). A Core 2 Duo T7600 was installed here.
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		<p>
			Attach the heatsink and install the screws (also, make sure to install the AC jack as highlighted):<br/>
			<img src="../images/t60_dev/0052.JPG" alt="" />
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			Reinstall that upper bezel:<br/>
			<img src="../images/t60_dev/0053.JPG" alt="" />
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			Do that:<br/>
			<img src="../images/t60_dev/0054.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0055.JPG" alt="" />
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		<p>
			Attach keyboard:<br/>
			<img src="../images/t60_dev/0056.JPG" alt="" />
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		<p>
			Place keyboard and (sorry, forgot to take pics) reinstall the palmrest and insert screws on the underside:<br/>
			<img src="../images/t60_dev/0058.JPG" alt="" />
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		<p>
			It lives!<br/>
			<img src="../images/t60_dev/0071.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0072.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0073.JPG" alt="" />
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		<p>
			Always stress test ('stress -c 2' and xsensors. below 90C is ok) when replacing cpu paste/heatsink:<br/>
			<img src="../images/t60_dev/0074.JPG" alt="" />
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		Copyright &copy; 2014 Francis Rowe &lt;info@gluglug.org.uk&gt;<br/>
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		A copy of the license can be found at <a href="../license.txt">../license.txt</a>.
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